around the area today and tomorrow. good afternoon. i'm steve sanders. and i'm dina bair. we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. our top story.. a warm and windy start to the week temperatures have already hit an unseasonablly warm 80-degrees in many parts of the area. our best chance for severe weather starts this afternoon. right in time for the evening commute. wgn meteorologist tom skilling will have more the storm system later in our newscast. the same weather system headed into the chicago area is being blamed for as many as 28- tornadoes in oklahoma, kansas, iowa and illinois yesterday and today. some of those reports might have been of the same tornado. oklahoma and kansas were the hardest hit. one person was killed and at least a dozen people were injured. oklahoma's governor has declared a state of emergency in sixteen counties. commuters and c-t-a bosses are giving a thumbs up to the first workday commute of the redline reconstruction project. wgn's judy wang is live in washington park with that story.

they have been preparing for this for more than one year. revenue redline come down. october 19th this project is supposed to be complete. this is affecting 80,000 riders who are getting their first taste of life for a while. >> some you can see it in their faces. >> i was trying to consider all the different options. ryan them still in a state of confusion as to what to do. some said it was smooth sailing. >> not having to stop at 87. >> spending the next months building tracks in the event o .

>> we're asking a lot of the computers and a lot of the workers. everybody is working together to do exactly what we need to do to bring the red line into the 21st century. >> one of our crew members aboard a bus to garfield. the total commute time was 32 minutes. >> officials say there will make adjustments as this yell things go. >> they say in some places there

in such beds this academy travel about 50 mi. per hour. >> an average of 10-20 minutes of command. >> and 9 year old boy is seriously injured >> and nephew was able to pull the dog off of the boy. the child had led to his arms and legs. failure to have the dog vaccinated against rabies and failure to keep the animal restrained. 12 young people face charges in connection with weekend disturbances along the magnificent mile.

10 juveniles and two adults face citations ranging from reckless conduct, loitering, resisting police and damaging a police officer's bicycle. they are accused of being part of a group that blocked streets near the gold coast on saturday. police say the group was made up of several dozen teenagers who roamed from michigan avenue to lasalle street. the group dispersed after police showed up. parents of three of the children killed in the sandy hook elementary school massacre in newtown, connecticut are in springfield today. you're looking live at the illinois senate. which is considering a gun-control bill that would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines in illinois. senate president john cullerton's office tells wgn, the sandy hook parents are expected to be in the senate gallery this afternoon and may testify at a separate executive committee session. the parents support the magazine ban and say it could save innocent lives. the group is sounding off about

those proposed school closings. >> actually to protest alleged. while their locations or separate, their message is still the same. save our schools. >> thousands of parents and community organizers with the term and voices eye-catching science march from elementary to williams elementary on 27 and dearborn on the last day of the three that city led protest against proposed school closings. they expressed their anger with city and school officials. if they are actually going to close the schools but invest in areas that do not need investing. $150 million and

build up navy pier but cannot spend $1,000 on the school >> we know that closing schools is failed education policy. >> graduated back in 1980, her daughter now attends the same school. she said she was turned away because of a learning disability. officials are looking at merging the two schools. >> if you cannot help me then, how can you help me now? >> >> i certainly think they have

drawn attention to the problem. >> the protesters here are making their way north where they will meet up with other protesters for a big rally a group of protesters will delivered a letter hoping to convince them not to close these 54 schools >> protesters tell me that they will not stop there. they want a moratorium on all school closings. >> she served as president obama first social secretary. the mayor wants rogers and the tourism organization to help

bring 40 million tourists to chicago each year. she talked about the plan to achieve that goal. >> we have to continue to market the city. if it continued to work on special events. we have to bring more people into the city. we have lost some business quite frankly. we want that business back. >> it should not stop torras. the black hawks have been the best road team in hockey this season the hawks have been the best road team in hockey this season and hopefully that trend will continue tonight. the blackhawks travel to detroit for game three with the series tied at one. the hawks have only lost twice at joe louis arena in the last four years. we'll have more in sports just ahead! there's only one winning ticket for the richest powerball jackpot in u-s history but we don't know yet who's got it. the winning ticket to that 590 million dollar jackpot was sold

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convicted killer jodi arias is back in a courtroom in phoenix for the sentencing phase of her tiral. defense attorneys will present witnesses to testify on arias' behalf in an effort to spare her from a death sentence. she faces life in prison or execution. last week, jurors heard tearful comments from travis alexander's brother and sister, as they described how the murder has affected their lives . jurors are expected to begin deliberating later this week.

two f-b-i agents died in a training exercise friday just off the coast of virginia beach. christopher lorek and stephen shaw belonged to an elite hostage rescue team. they were aboard a military sealift command ship when the accident happened. the f-b-i won't say exactly what took place, but it says no gunfire was involved and the cause of the incident is under review. a terror attack on moscow has been foiled according to security forces in that country. they say they killed two militants and detained another. all three are described as russian citizens "trained in afghanistan and pakistan." in dagestan at least eight people were killed and 20 injured in attacks. in one of the incidents bombs went off inside a busy shopping area and near a government building. in a separate attack, gunmen shot and killed three policemen and injured two others. the motive behind the shooting and bombing is not clear. islamic insurgents have been responsible for several deadly attacks in the area.

the country also is tied to the alleged boston marathon bombers the brothers. north korea test-fired six missiles off its eastern coast over the weekend. the two most recent firings took place early this morning. all of the short-range missiles fell harmlessly into the water, but their firing once again raises tensions in the region. the latest incident came after south korea condemned the earlier launches. analysts believe the north was merely protesting last week's joint u.s.-south korean naval drills. president obama will lay out his counter terrorism policy later this week. he'll outline his updated policy thursday at the national defense university in washington. topics will include the use of military drones against terrorists, which has been criticized by human rights activists. the president will also talk about closing the prison at guantanamo bay, which he first pledged to do during his presidential campaign five years ago. just ahead a new study about an every-day item that has more germs than a toilet. and, still to come this midday:

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police radios transmit immediate notification of severe weather or emergency alert signals from the national weather service. very helpful when severe weather strikes quickly. we're going to post a photo gallery good chances that weather radio is are going to be selling this afternoon. >> the violent weather situations. we heard what is happening out on the plains. even in western illinois last night, it is an atmosphere primed to go. it was great seeing everybody out in

schaumburg. it is fun to drive out there on such a beautiful day. we did have a beautiful day >> last night there were some big thunderstorms that erupted across here. our pictures are available here. to send us the shot of the lightning. the storms cut into the western suburbs and faded out. always incredible stories of debris being carried for miles. >> flew from 80 mi. away. there were all kinds of pictures, distant magazines and newspapers that traveled 80 mi. to where he was. she has been falling means youngsters since they were hatched. tony shows us

a cardinal. this weather is for the birds and the finest sense of tradition. it is gorgeous in the area. you can see the offshore breezes. propelling that warm air into the area. our sixth, 7, 8 to 83 days. it is warm. these are temperatures earlier today. since then readings have moved into the '80s. thesthis is where the dew point is over 65 degrees. this is all of the moisture that you need to start developing thunderstorms. you can see little cluster is already developing it as the ones up to the west of us that we are watching with the greatest interest. you can see the

eruptions of storms out west. a huge spring storm center out here in minnesota. there are the storms that went to oklahoma after a. they moved up into missouri. up until now the storms were moving into an unfavorable environment. the set up has now shifted into our area. these obviously were deadly. here's the plot of all of the storm reports and every little red icon is where a tornado touched down. others upton to kansas and missouri. we have not had a touchdown. in this mass of reports out here in western illinois. most of the other icons represent hill reports. widely scattered

thunderstorms this afternoon. between seven and nine storms are to arrive in the city in greater numbers. by midnight they're still roaming the areas. things calm down a little bit. we may get some good downpour's with these thunderstorms in addition to the severe weather producing capability. there is our storm. the powerful southerly winds are moving into this area with humidity. you see how the storm clusters blow up. a judge in cuts to the air mass. what happens is the air rises and begins to rotate. the

thunderstorm tends to rotate and you get tornadic vortices to spend up. tomorrow we continue in the wrist area. these storms might reform. there is the thunderstorm watch currently in effect. have a heavy rain appear in the northern midwest. advisory's for wind and possible wild fires of west. is like a july day. look at the wind gust blowing here. lots of energy as all of this error movement goes onair movement go >> this is the highest calling, that we've had so far this season the warm temperatures

>> because less of a pollea pol >> is our temperatures across the metro area. the wind gust are pretty vigorous as you can see right there. we expect more. we go back to the '80s tomorrow. this comes in later in the week. it will not be here right away. we still get into the '70s on wednesday the chill settles and going into the first part of the memorial weekend. there are indications that after a couple of days of wind off the lake, we will be warming up and getting back to the weather regime. warm and humid this raises the

potential for severe weather as the day goes on. high temperatures today 87. we expect tornado watches might be issued. scattered thunderstorms might develop. some of them might be severe tomorrow. by wednesday the severe weather threat has passed. cooler air rises in the afternoon. if you showers and temperatures falling to 79. it has been a long time since we've had a of brick of severe weather. we will see. everybody was counting how quiet the season was.

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these intensify they're going to be more of those periods i was just looking at the latest doppler, they have cloud tops all the way up to 38,000 ft.. here's how they will develop. this is 6:15 p.m.. there is 840 this evening. that is midnight. see how the clusters form. >> only to redevelop it by tomorrow afternoon as we keep up back to the '80s. the year and a severe weather risk area. we could get some pretty good downpour's out of this. there is a closer look at the chicago area. pay attention more to the

general trend and sithen specifc numbers. we have calling southwest wind. the storms, the environment is right for the storms to blow up. swarming to the middle or upper '70's by the middle or upper '70's by memorial day. captioning made possible by sony pictures television